Julia Sweeney Quotes

It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at the world not as a child, but as an adult. I see what's bad and it's really bad. But I also see what is beautiful, what is wonderful. And I feel so deeply appreciative that I am alive. How dare the religious use the term 'born again.' That truly describes freethinkers who've thrown off the shackles of religion so much better!

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Beautiful, Letting Go, Religious

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If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.

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Looks, Steps, Common

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Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

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Motivation, Inspiration, Santa

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Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

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Funny Things, Things In Life, Illness

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To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

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Leap Of Faith, Sides, Certain

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I just became a stronger agnostic, and then I started to realize that everyone who was saying they were agnostic really hadn't thought about it that much. Still, I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist -- being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

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Atheist, Long, Stronger

"FINDING MY RELIGION / Julia Sweeney talks about how she became an atheist" by David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2005.

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Losing my faith was the most spiritual thing that ever happened to me.

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Spiritual, Losing, Happened

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Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to say: it is thrilling and mind-boggling beyond all imaginings! It makes the Bible so puny and uninspired, and certainly less poetic, by comparison. I'm terribly sorry. I sincerely misunderstood so much. I almost wish there were a God so I could be punished for all the suffering I have obliviously caused in the world. But since there will be no cosmic punishment for me, I will spend what time I have left working in a family planning clinic in Latin America. Good day.

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Sorry, Latin, Humble

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Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?

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Beautiful, Atheist, Book

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I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

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Nice, Thinking, Scary

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sometimes it's in your limitations that you find your greatest strengths.

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Sometimes, Limitation

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[Penn Jillette] said, 'If a truck is barreling toward you, no amount of positiveness will stop it from hitting you.' I needed to hear that I didn't have to be enthusiastic all the time. Some days you just need to be in a bad mood.

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Hitting, Needs, Bad Mood

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My philosophy involves imaging terrible things happening all the time, and getting used to it, so reality isn't so bad. And then you're always happy. You really just have to think yourself through it. That is how I've been able to come to happiness, but it is a subtle difference between scaring yourself all the time with terrible things happening, it's more about actually about making peace with it. That's my advice.

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Philosophy, Reality, Thinking

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Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible. ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.

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Body, Becoming, Reason

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It's fantastic to believe, because they get so many benefits. I get mad at the atheist community when they put down believers because they put down religion so much. Now I am an atheist, but I don't like to describe myself with that term. I prefer secular humanist. But I do see first hand how beneficial religion is, for example if you are a refugee getting in a boat to take you across the Mediterranean, a belief in God is an advantage. I completely understand that comfort.

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Atheist, Believe, Mad

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I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected.

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Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

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Cancer, Fine

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I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

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Realizing, Minutes, Jokes

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Born: October 10, 1959
Occupation: Actress
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